Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature

Chapter 1 The Spatial Turn and Twenty-First Century Latin American Fiction

Chapter 2 Beyond the Ruins of the Organized City: Urban Experiences Through the Metro in Contemporary Mexican Literature

Chapter 3 Spectral Spaces: Haunting in the Latin American City

Chapter 4 A Tale of Three Cities: Urban Space in the Crack Novels (1995–1997)

Chapter 5 The Night That Repeats Itself: Social Dystopia in Managua, Salsa City (¡Devórame Otra Vez!) , by Franz Galich

Chapter 7 Place-Making in the Solitude of the City: Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos

Chapter 8 Dislocated Subjects in the Global City: Santiago Gamboa’s Hotel Pekín

Chapter 9 Roberto Bolaño’s Urban Labyrinths: The City as Metaphor for the Silent Universe

Chapter 10 The Tourist Aesthetic and Empire in Rodrigo Fresán’s Mantra and Jardines de Kensington